Zoe Winston at the Cullentra House hub for Cheltenham week

The build up or the countdown continues this weekend for everyone at Gordon Elliott's ahead of the eagerly-awaited Cheltenham Festival with some 30 runners from the purpose-built Cullentra House Stables set for the journey. At the hub of the operation is Yorkshire woman Zoe Winston who won't even get to Prestbury Park.

Zoe, along with Camilla Sharples from Lancashire, with the local theme maintained by Mary Nugent from Navan, will make sure that everyhing goes like clockwork as the logistics of tackling Prestbury Park 2017 gets underway with all the equipment and feed heading across the Irish Sea today.

Racing is in Zoe's blood as she is the daughter of Ferdy Murphy who enjoyed many big-race victories, including 10 Cheltenham Festival winners. French Holly, won the 1998 Royal & SunAlliance Novices Hurdle and was third to Istabraq in the following year's Champion Hurdle.

He traned Paris Pike to win the Scottish National as a novice in 2000 with Kilmessan man Adrian Maguire on board.

Zoe worked for her father for about 10 years and then moved to Ireland with her husband John, who is from Dublin.

'John is from Finglas, but we found a connection back to Yorkshire with his name,' Zoe told the Meath Chronicle.

Unusually, she took a break from racing completely for about three months and worked in Brown Thomas in Dublin.

'I took a break from racing, but three months was about all I could manage and I had to get back to the horses, I got a part-time job for two days a week with Gordon almost three years ago and it developed from there, now it's a full-time role,' she said.

By full-time she means full-time as her duties could keep her on call more than the 'normal five-day routine' but she loves what she does and her son Tighe attends the local school in Longwood as the family lives locally now.

'All the equipment and all the other stuff that we will need will go to Cheltenham on Saturday while the Tuesday runners will head off on Sunday morning and it will be a rota after that.

'We will have the horses stabled in Cheltenham and we are always well looked after there, but we will will also have to keep things ticking over at home as well.

'I rarely get to the races anywhere, but I will watch the action on television,' she added.

One horse that will be making the trip is the unpredictable Labaik which could win the Supreme Novices Hurdle on Tuesday - if he decides to run as he has refused to start more often than he has started.

Labaik had his first outing for Gordon Elliott at Laytown in 2016 - refusing to race.

Labaik was only seen on the track twice prior to that, once at Deuville in a 2014 debut where, as a three-year-old, the grey was unplaced on the all-weather for owner Hamdan Al Maktoum.

Two years elapsed before another trip to the track, this time for Lambourn trainer Owen Burrows, but with jockey Dane O'Neill on board and sent to the start as 5/4 favourite, the five-year-old refused to race at Lingfield.

A trip to the sales was next and for £25,000 a new owner was on board and a trip to Longwood.

After Laytown, Gordon and his team got a win at Punchestown and again at Navan last November and also in a charity race at Leopardstown on the flat.